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I recently placed an ad looking for a junior developer for a project paying a very junior rate and yet have received a high percentage of senior developer resumes.
As a senior developer, I am curious about why that is. I am also wondering whether I should move forward with those candidates who are, according to their resumes, capable of commanding a rate several multiples of the one I am offering.
Your thoughts?
2) Might have personality issues
3) Might have been fired
In my experience, having someone over-qualified is a bad move. However in development, isn't there always "senior"-level work to do?
I'd say it's not worth following up if you're busy, as great people usually know they're great...
1) Resumes/past experience might be BS 2) Might have personality issues 3) Might have been fired In my experience, having someone over-qualified is a bad move. However in development, isn't there always "senior"-level work to do? I'd say it's not worth following up if you're busy, as great people usually know they're great...
Let's say I've been working for almost 3 years in which i have developed fully on my own Android, Java Swing, Php, AngularJS, C and managed an apache server with FTP access and virtual domains.
I know half of the people I went Uni with would cry and weep at the prospect of doing my job, but still, there's nobody to say that I'm senior.
Maybe the person applying just doesn'ty know he's Senior, after all there's no Standard.
Maybe he's just unemployed and feeling the dread of poverty.
Maybe he has a shitty job and just wants to flee or get better opportunities of improvement.
Their thinking (and I know some people who've found this) might be that it's easier to get hired as a slightly-overqualified junior developer and promoted to senior within a year than to get hired as an average senior dev.
Once you've been laid off for a while it is hard to find work - they may be desperate. Ageism is very real.
Is it common to apply in hopes that the company has other positions that are a better fit? Could that be the case here?